It is all very confusing, but that’s what it is meant to be: place more layers of red tape, regulation, and European Commission’s plain stupidity into online video.
Some of the proposed rules have been relaxed, but EC still wants websites showing TV online to be subject to new regulations.
The draft directive includes a distinction between “push content” and “pull content”. Push content is conventional broadcasting, which is “pushed out” to consumers over any medium, including the internet — and this will remain subject to heavy regulation. However, it also brings into the net “pull content” — television clips on websites that are selected by consumers. It is proposed that this type of material be subject to slightly more relaxed rules…
IHT also sorts through the issues involved: The interpretation of these new regulations could lead to legal uncertainty and chill investment, said Antony Walker, director of Intellect, an association of 1,000 British technology companies, which has urged the commission to scrap the proposal and start over again.
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